1st Grade Open Court Map1[1]

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Let’s Read Unit 1: Lessons 1-5

Letter Recognition Comprehension Language Arts

• Aa, Bb Strategies: • Vocabulary: Classification

• Cc, Dd • Visualizing • Introduction to the Writing Process

• Ee, Ff, Gg • Asking Questions • Grammar: Capital Letters-Names

• Hh, Ii, Jj and I

• Kk, Ll, Mm • Listening: Listening Attentively

• Penmanship: Letters Are Lines

Let’s Read Unit 1: Lessons 6-10

Letter Recognition Comprehension Language Arts

• Nn, Oo, Pp Strategies: • Vocabulary: Rhyming Words

• Qq, Rr, Ss • Monitoring and • Introduction to the Writing Process:
• Tt, Uu, Vv Clarifying Planning
• Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz
• Alphabet • Visualizing • Grammar: Capital Letters-Cities
and States; Days and Months
• Asking Questions
• Speaking: Speaking Clearly

• Penmanship: Letters are Lines

Let’s Read Unit 1: Lessons 11-15

Phonics Comprehension Language Arts

• /s/ Spelled s Strategies: • Vocabulary: Context Clues

• /m/ Spelled m • Monitoring and • Introduction to the Writing Process:
• /a/ Spelled a Clarifying Writing
• /t/ Spelled t
• /h/ Spelled h • Visualizing • Grammar: Capital Letters-
Beginning of Sentences
• Predicting
• Asking Questions • Language: Informal and Formal

Skills: Language

• Reality and Fantasy • Penmanship: Letters are Lines

• Comparing and

Contrasting

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Phonics Animals Unit 2: Lessons 1-5 Language Arts
• /p/ Spelled p Comprehension • Vocabulary: Classification
• /i/ Spelled I • Introduction to the Writing Process:
• /n/ Spelled n Strategies:
• /l/ Spelled l, _ll, _l • Asking Questions Revising
• Review: /a/. /h/, /i/, /l/, /m/, /n/, /s/, /t/ • Predicting • Grammar: Adjectives
• Visualizing • Viewing: Understanding Pictures
Phonics • Penmanship: Letters are Lines
• /d/ Spelled d Skills:
• /o/ Spelled o • Comparing and Language Arts
• /b/ Spelled b Contrasting • Vocabulary: Antonyms
• /k/ Spelled c • Introduction to the Writing Process:
• Review: /a/, /i/, /o/ Animals Unit 2: Lessons 6-10
Comprehension Checking
Phonics • Grammar: Type of Sentences
• /k/ Spelled k Strategies: • Interacting: Asking Questions
• /r/ Spelled r • Monitoring and • Penmanship: Letters are Lines
• /u/ Spelled u Clarifying • Proofreading Marks
• /g/ Spelled g • Summarizing • End Punctuation
• Review: /a/, /i/, /u/ • Visualizing • Spelling
• Writing: Autobiography
Skills: • Grammar: Review
• Main Ideas and Details
Language Arts
Animals Unit 2: Lessons 11-15 • Writing: Share
Comprehension • Share: Autobiography
• Grammar: Review
Strategies:
• Summarizing
• Asking Questions
• Monitoring and
Clarifying

Skills:
• Main Idea and Details
• Drawing Conclusions

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Phonics Things That Go Unit 3: Lessons 1-5 Language Arts
• /j/ Spelled j, _dge Comprehension • Vocabulary: Classification
• /f/ Spelled f • Writing: Lists
• /e/ Spelled e Strategies: • Grammar: Possessive Nouns
• Review: Short-Vowel Sounds • Listening: Order of Events
• /ks/ Spelled _x • Making Connections • Penmanship: Numbers Are Lines

Phonics • Predicting Language Arts
• /z/ Spelled z, _zz, _s Skills: • Vocabulary: Classification
• /e/ Spelled _ea_ • Writing Journals
• Review: /z/ Spelled _zz • Classifying and • Grammar: Singular and Plural
• /sh/ Spelled sh Categorizing
• /th/ Spelled th Nouns
• Review: /sh/ and /th/ Things That Go Unit 3: Lessons 6-10 • Speaking: Speaking Clearly
Comprehension • Penmanship: Numbers Are Lines
Phonics
• /ch/ Spelled ch, _tch Strategies: Language Arts
• /ar/ Spelled ar • Vocabulary: Classification
• /m/ Spelled mb • Monitoring and • Writing: Learning Logs
• Review: Short-Vowel Sounds Clarifying • Grammar: Review
• /w/ Spelled w_ • Language: Learning from Words
• /hw/ Spelled wh_ • Asking Questions • Penmanship: Numbers Are Lines
• /er/ Spelled er, ir, ur
• Summarizing
Skills:

• Classifying and
Categorizing

• Comparing and
Contrasting

Things That Go Unit 3: Lessons 11-15
Comprehension

Strategies:

• Visualizing
Skills:

• Comparing and
Contrasting

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Our Neighborhood at Word Unit 4: Lessons 1-5

Phonics Comprehension Language Arts

• Review: Short-Vowel Sounds Strategies: • Vocabulary: Classification

• /k/ Spelled k_ • Monitoring and • Writing: Invitation
• /ng/ Spelled _ng Clarifying • Grammar: Capitalization
• /kw/ Spelled qu_ • Viewing: Learning from Pictures
• /y/ Spelled y_ • Predicting • Penmanship: The Letter Mm
Skills:

• Classifying and

Categorizing

Our Neighborhood at Word Unit 4: Lessons 6-10

Phonics Comprehension Language Arts

• Review: /y/ Spelled y_ Strategies: • Vocabulary: Compound Words

• Long a Spelled a, a_e • Visualizing • Writing: Thank-You Note

• /s/ Spelled ce and ci_ • Summarizing • Grammar: End Punctuation
• Review: General Skills: • Interacting: Making Introductions
• /i/ Spelled i and i_e • Penmanship: The Letter Pp
• Main Idea and Details

Our Neighborhood at Word Unit 4: Lessons 11-15

Phonics Comprehension Language Arts

• /o/ Spelled o and o_e Strategies: • Vocabulary: Rhyming Words

• Review: Long /a/ Spelled a, a_e • Monitoring and • Writing: Friendly Letter
• /ï/ Spelled i, i_e; Long /o/ Spelled o, o_e Clarifying • Grammar: Review
• Review: Spellings for Long /a/, /o/, /i/ • Presenting: Sharing About Yourself
• /v/ Spelled v • Asking Questions • Penmanship: The Letter Tt
• /u/ Spelled u and u_e
• Making Connections
Skills:

• Drawing Conclusions

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Weather Unit 5: Lessons 1-5

Phonics Comprehension Language Arts
• Concept Vocabulary
• /j/ Spelled ge, gi_ Strategies: • Writing: Instructions
• Grammar: Adjectives
• Long /e/ Spelled e and e_e • Asking Questions • Listening: Fact or Opinion?
• Penmanship: The Letter Hh
• Review: /v/ Spelled v; Long /u/ Spelled u, • Monitoring and
u_e; /j/ Spelled ge, gi_; Long /e/ Spelled e, Clarifying Language Arts
• Vocabulary: Context Clues
e_e • Making Connections • Writing: Signs and Labels
• Grammar: Verbs
• Review Long e Spelled e, e_e Skills: • Speaking: Clear Speech
• Penmanship: The Letter Dd
• Long /e/ Spelled ee, ea • Main Idea and Details
Language Arts
Weather Unit 5: Lessons 6-10

Phonics Comprehension

• Long /e/ Spelled _y, _ie_ Strategies:

• Long Vowels Followed by r • Visualizing

• Long /a/ Spelled ai_, _ay • Summarizing

• /ï/ Spelled igh • Making Connections

• Review: Long /a/ Spelled ai_; Long /e/ Spelled • Monitoring and
ea, _y, _ie_; Long /i/ Spelled igh Clarifying

Skills:

• Comparing and

Contrasting

• Cause and Effect

• Classifying and

Categorizing

Weather Unit 5: Lessons 11-15

Phonics Comprehension

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• Long /i/ Spelled _y, _ie Strategies: • Vocabulary: Classification

• Long /o/ Spelled _oe • Predicting • Writing: Summary

• Long /o/ Spelled oa_, _ow • Making Connections • Grammar: Review

• Long /u/ Spelled _ew, _ue • Asking Questions • Language: Informal and Formal

• General Review • Monitoring and Language
Clarifying • Penmanship: The Letter As

• Summarizing

Skills:

• Making Inferences

• Main Idea and Details

• Sequence

• Cause and Effect

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Journeys Unit 6: Lessons 1-5

Phonics Comprehension Language Arts
• Vocabulary: Classifications
• Long /oo/ Spelled oo, _ue, u_e, _ew, u Strategies: • Writing: Book Report
• Grammar: Commas in a Series
• /oo/ Spelled oo • Monitoring and • Viewing: Learning from Pictures
• Penmanship: The Letter Ii
• Review: /oo/ and Long /oo/ Clarifying
Language Arts
• /ow/ Spelled ow • Summarizing • Vocabulary: Rhyming Words
• /ow/ Spelled ou_ • Writing: Directions
• Asking Questions • Grammar: Capitalization of Cities
Skills:
and States
• Classifying and • Interacting: Asking Questions
• Penmanship: The Letter Ll
Categorizing
Language Arts
• Main Idea and Details • Vocabulary: Concept Vocabulary
• Writing: Report
Journeys Unit 6: Lessons 6-10 • Grammar: Review
• Presenting: Staying on Topic
Phonics Comprehension • Penmanship: The Letter Nn

• Review: Long /oo/ and /oo/; /ow/ Spelled ow, Strategies:
• Monitoring and Clarifying
ou_; Long /o/
• Predicting
• /aw/ Spelled aw, au_
• Review: /ow/ Spelled ou_, ow; /aw/ Spelled • Making Connections

au_, aw • Visualizing
Skills:
• /n/ Spelled kn_
• Review: Long /oo/ and /oo/; /n/ Spelled kn_ • Comparing and
Contrasting

• Main Idea and Details

• Sequence

Journeys Unit 6: Lessons 11-15

Phonics Comprehension

• Comparatives with –er and –est Strategies:
• /oi/ Spelled oi, _oy • Monitoring and Clarifying
• /r/ Spelled wr_ • Asking Questions
• /f/ Spelled ph • Predicting
• Review: /oi/; /r/ Spelled wr_; /f/ Spelled ph • Summarizing
• Making Connections

Skills:

• Classifying and

Categorizing

• Making Inferences

• Reality and Fantasy

• Sequence

• Drawing Conclusions

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Keep Trying Unit 7: Lessons 1-2

Phonics and Fluency Comprehension Language Arts
• Spelling: Short- and Long-Vowel Sounds
• Review: Short Vowel Spellings; Long /o/ Spelled o_e, Strategies: • Vocabulary: Concept Words
• Writing: Personal Narrative
_oe, oa_, _ow • Predicting • Grammar: Past Tense Verbs
• Listening: Listening to a Story
• Review Short-Vowel and Long-Vowel Spellings • Summarizing • Penmanship: The Letter Cc

Skills: Language Arts
• Spelling: The /u/ sound
• Cause and Effect • Vocabulary: Antonyms
• Writing: Personal Narrative
Phonics and Fluency Keep Trying Unit 7: Lesson 3 • Grammar: Pronouns
• Review: Long /u/ Spelled u, _ew, u_e, _ue Comprehension • Speaking: Speaking Clearly
• Penmanship: The Letter Oo
Strategies:
Language Arts
• Predicting • Spelling: /ow/, Short Vowel Sounds, Long
• Summarizing
Skills: /o/, and Long /e/
• Cause and Effect • Vocabulary: Classification
• Writing: Picture Book
Phonics and Fluency Keep Trying Unit 7: Lesson 4 • Grammar: Possessive Pronouns
Comprehension • Speaking: Talking About Pictures
• Review: /ow/ Spellings • Penmanship: The Letter Gg
• Short- and Long-Vowel Sounds Strategies:
• Making Connections Language Arts
• Summarizing • Spelling: /ow/, /s/
• Vocabulary: Classification
Skills: • Writing: Make-Believe Story
• Grammar: Adjectives that Compare
• Drawing Conclusions • Interacting: Making Gestures
• Penmanship: The Letter Qq
Keep Trying Unit 7: Lessons 5-6
Language Arts
Phonics and Fluency Comprehension • Spelling: Review
• Vocabulary: Review
• Review: /ow/ Spelled ou_, ow; Sounds for o Other Strategies: • Writing: Make-Believe Story
• Grammar: Review
than Long- and Short-Vowel Sounds (mother, other); • Monitoring and Clarifying • Speaking: Staying on Topic
• Penmanship: The Letter Uu
/s/ Spelled ce, ci_ • Making Connections

• Review: Long-Vowel Sounds; /j/ Spelled ge, gi_ • Summarizing

• Asking Questions

Skills:

• Main Idea and Details

• Cause and Effect

Keep Trying Unit 7: Lessons 7-9

Phonics and Fluency Comprehension

• Review: /aw/ Spelled as, au_ Strategies:

• Review: Long /a/ Spelled ai_, _ay; /oo/ Spellings; Long • Monitoring and Clarifying

/oo/ Spelled oo; /aw/ Spelled aw, au_; /ow/ Spelled • Making Connections

ow, ou_ • Visualizing

Skills:

• Sequence

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Phonics and Fluency Games Unit 8: Lessons 1-3 Language Arts
• /aw/ Spelled augh Comprehension • Spelling Long /e/, /aw/, /n/, /l/, and
• Review: Long /e/ Spelled _y
• /aw/ Spelled ough Strategies: /ng/
• Review: /n/ Spelled n, kn_ • Summarizing • Vocabulary: Synonyms
• /l/ Spelled _ie • Making Connections • Writing: Describing and Object
• Review: /n/ Spelled kn_ • Asking Questions • Grammar: Kinds of Sentences
• /ng/ Spelled _ng • Monitoring and • Listening: Listening to a Story
• /aw/ Spellings Clarifying • Penmanship: The Letter Jj

Phonics and Fluency Skills: Language Arts
• Review: /j/ and /g/ • Sequence • Spelling: /j/, /r/, /f/, /th/, and Long-
• Review: /r/ Spelled wr_ • Comparing and
• Review: /f/ Spelled ph Contrasting Vowel Sounds
• Review: Long-Vowel Spellings • Vocabulary: Antonyms
• Review: /th/ Spelled th Games Unit 8: Lessons 4-5 • Writing: Describing a Person
• Review: /j/ Spelled ge, gi_ Comprehension • Grammar: Sentence Parts
• Viewing: Understanding Pictures
Phonics and Fluency Strategies: • Penmanship: The Letter Ff
• Review: Short-Vowel Sounds • Visualizing
• Monitoring and Language Arts
Phonics and Fluency Clarifying
• Making Connections • Spelling: Short-Vowel Sounds
• Vocabulary: Homophones
Skills: • Writing: Describing an Animal
• Main Idea and Details • Grammar: Contractions
• Speaking: Describing Ideas
Games Unit 8: Lesson 6
Comprehension • Penmanship: The Letter Ee

Strategies: Language Arts
• Predicting
• Visualizing

Skills:
• Drawing Conclusions

Games Unit 8: Lessons 7-8
Comprehension

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• /aw/ Spelled a Strategies: • Spelling: /aw/, /m/. /i/, /i/, and Long /e/
• Review: /m/ Spelled _mb Sounds
• Review: /i/ and /i/ Spellings • Summarizing
• Review: /e/ Spelled _ea_ • Predicting • Vocabulary: Review
Skills: • Writing: Describing and Event
• Grammar: Review
• Cause and Effect • Speaking: Talking in Groups

• Penmanship: The Letter Kk

Phonics and Fluency Being Afraid Unit 9: Lessons 1-2 Language Arts
Comprehension • Spelling: Review of /n/, /ar, Long
• Review: Long /o/ Spellings
• Review: /ar/ Sound Strategies: /a/, and Long /o/ Sounds
• Review: Long /a/ Spellings • Vocabulary: Synonyms
• Review: /n/ Spelled kn_ • Asking Questions • Writing: Rhyming Poem
• Grammar: Review Nouns and
• Predicting
Skills: Pronouns
• Listening: Listen and Respond
• Drawing Conclusions • Penmanship: The Letter Xx

Phonics and Fluency Being Afraid Unit 9: Lessons 3-4 Language Arts
• Review: /e/ and Long /e/ Spellings Comprehension • Spelling: Review of Short-vowel,
• Review: Short-Vowel Sounds
• Review: Long /u/ Spellings Strategies: Long /e/, and Long /u/ Sounds
• Review: Long /e/ Spelled _y • Vocabulary: Context Clues
• Visualizing • Writing: Rhyming Poem
Phonics and Fluency • Grammar: Review Verbs
• Monitoring and • Speaking: Speaking Clearly
Clarifying • Penmanship: The Letter Yy

• Asking Questions Language Arts

• Summarizing

• Predicting
Skills:

• Classifying and
Categorizing

Being Afraid Unit 9: Lessons 5-6
Comprehension

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• Review: Long /oo/ and Long /u/ Sounds Strategies: • Spelling: Review /kw/, Long /u/, and

• Review: /kw/ Spelled qu_ • Predicting Long /oo/ Sounds

• Making Connections • Vocabulary: The Suffix –er

• Summarizing • Writing: Non-Rhyming Poem –

• Monitoring and Cinquain

Clarifying • Grammar: Review Kinds of

Skills: Sentences and End Marks

• Comparing and • Interacting: Group Conversations

Contrasting • Penmanship: The Letter Zz

• Drawing Conclusions

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Being Afraid Unit 9: Lessons 7-8

Phonics and Fluency Comprehension Language Arts
• Spelling: Review /ow/, /er/, Long
• Review: /ow/ Spelled ow, ou_ Strategies:
/o/, Long /i/, and Long /e/ Sounds
• Review: /er/ Spellings • Predicting • Vocabulary: Compound Words
• Writing: Nonrhyming Poem – Word
• Review: Long /o/ Spelled _ow • Visualizing
Poem
• Review: Long /i/ Spelled _y, _ie and Long /e/ • Summarizing • Grammar: Review Adjectives
• Viewing: Main Ideas
Spelled _y, _ie_ Skills: • Penmanship: The Letter Ww

• Drawing Conclusions Language Arts
• Spelling: Review /aw/, /ng/, and
• Cause and Effect
Words with Long-Vowel Sounds
• Main Idea and Details Followed by r
• Vocabulary: Review
Being Afraid Unit 9: Lessons 9-11 • Writing: Pattern Poem
• Grammar: Review Past Tense
Phonics and Fluency Comprehension Verbs
• Presenting: Reading Aloud
• Review: /oo/ and Long /oo/ Spelled oo Strategies: • Penmanship: The Letter Vv

• Review: Long /o/ and /o/ • Visualizing

• Review: /ng/ Spelled _ng, _nk • Monitoring and
• Review: Long Vowels Followed by r Clarifying
• Review: /aw/ Spellings
• Summarizing

• Predicting

Skills:

• Reality and Fantasy

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Homes Unit 10: Lessons 1-3

Phonics and Fluency Comprehension Language Arts
• Spelling: Review Spelling Patterns
• Review: Vowel Sounds in Open and Closed Strategies:
for the /j/, /er, /s/, /oi/, and /ch/
Syllables; /j/ Spelled ge, gi_, _dge; /s/ • Summarizing Sounds
• Vocabulary: Classification
Spelled ci_, ce • Monitoring and • Writing: Make a Poster
• Grammar: Review Subject-Verb
• Review: /oi/ Spelled oi, _oy Clarifying Agreement
• Listening: Following Directions
• Review: /er/ Spellings; /ch/ Spelled ch and Skills: • Penmanship: The Letter Ss

_tch • Classifying and Language Arts
• Spelling: Review the /ar/
Categorizing
Sound/Spelling
Phonics and Fluency Homes Unit 10: Lessons 4 • Vocabulary: Classification
• Review: /ar/ Spelled ar Comprehension • Writing: Make a Poster
• Grammar: Review Contractions and
Phonics and Fluency Strategies:
• Review: /ar/ and /er Spellings with Short Apostrophes
• Visualizing • Speaking: Clear Speech
Vowel Sounds; /k/ Spelled c, k, ck • Monitoring and • Penmanship: The Letter Bb
• Review: /f/ Spelled f, ph
Clarifying Language Arts
• Spelling: Review the /ar/, /er/. /k/,
• Making Connections
Skills: and /f/ Spellings
• Vocabulary: Compound Words
• Classifying and • Writing: An Advertisement
Categorizing • Grammar: Review Possessive

Homes Unit 10: Lessons 5-6 Nouns and Pronouns
Comprehension • Language: Pictures and Words
• Penmanship: Letter-Formation
Strategies:
Review
• Summarizing
• Asking Questions
• Making Connections
Skills:

• Comparing and
Contrasting

• Main Idea and Details

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Homes Unit 10: Lessons 7-8

Phonics and Fluency Comprehension Language Arts
• Spelling: Review the /r/ and /ng/
• Long /e/ Spelled _ey Strategies:
Sounds
• Review: /r/ Spelled wr_ • Monitoring and • Vocabulary: Classification
• /shun/ Spelled tion Clarifying • Writing: A Letter
• /yun/ Spelled ion • Grammar: Review Quotation Marks
• Review: /ng/ Spelled _ng • Predicting • Interacting: Descriptions and

• Summarizing Gestures
Skills: • Penmanship: Letter-Formation

• Comparing and Review

Contrasting Language Arts
• Spelling: Unit Review
• Making Inferences • Vocabulary: Unit Review
• Writing: A Paragraph That
• Cause and Effect
Persuades
Homes Unit 10: Lessons 9-10 • Grammar: Review Capitalization
• Presenting: Presenting a Story
Phonics and Fluency Comprehension • Penmanship: Letter-Formation

• Review: Sound Spellings with o, including /oi/ Strategies: Review

Spelled oi and /ö/ Spelled o • Monitoring and

• Review: General Clarifying

• Making Connections

Skills:

• Reality and Fantasy